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  • CTME 205: Narrative Video Production

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course teaches the theoretical and practical foundations of single-camera narrative video production. Through lectures, scene analysis, and workshop exercises, students learn pre-production, production, and post-production storytelling strategies. Students utilize tools like directing and blocking actors as well as technical tools like camera lenses, lighting, shot composition, and sound design to tell compelling stories. Students write, direct, shoot and edit several narrative productions and rotate crew positions to learn the requirements of each crew position in each department. Students study the current landscape to learn how short productions and their aesthetics are shaping and contributing to the media industry.
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  • CTME 206: Masterpieces in Film History

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course analyzes the films, directors, and movements that shaped the art of cinema from its birth to the present day. Students learn the production models, technological developments, and aesthetic techniques that define cinematic masterworks. This course also introduces students to popular film criticism and its contribution to the discussion of the cinematic "masterpiece."
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  • CTME 211: Post-9/11 American Cinema

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course analyzes the history, aesthetics, business, and production techniques of post-9/11 American cinema. Students will examine how filmmakers continue to consider the power of popular film to function as a potent cultural artifact. Students will be able to reflect on defining fears and anxieties of this tumultuous era. Students will learn business models and technological advancements for production, distribution and exhibition. The course examines the evolution and shift towards realist aesthetics in film, and how the choice of a particular realism has an ideological significance; and the growth of global nature of 9/11 with reference to how Hollywood deals with American catastrophe in a global context.
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  • CTME 218: Studio Production Practicum

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course offers practical experience in various television studio production crew positions and in all the elements required to produce a studio production. The student serves as a camera operator, floor manager, audio technician, assistant director, producer, and in other crew positions. Students are also responsible for writing scripts, gathering B-roll, and producing and editing short features appropriate to the content of the show. Lighting techniques and set design are also included.
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  • CTME 220: Media Law and Ethics in the Digital Age

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course introduces students to state, federal and case laws as well as Constitutional issues pertaining to the fields of media, particularly television, film, video games, and online content. It traces their historical development and will explore their pertinence to today's technology and society. The course allows students to develop an understanding of legal rights and responsibilities working in the media industry as well as practical applications when creating media productions such as licensing, contracts, and distribution. The course also covers material such as freedom of the press, copyright, defamation, privacy issues, obscenity, and ethical considerations when creating media content.
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  • CTME 222: The Evolution of Sports and the Media

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    The Evolution of Sports and the Media will engage students in exploring the origins of media involvement in the sports industry, the history of media coverage of professional sports, the effects of media in sports and techniques used for producing sporting events. This course does not have a production component.
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  • CTME 240: Lighting for Cinema

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course presents advanced techniques, equipment, and applications of lighting for film and video production. Topics introduced in the lower-level production courses are expanded upon and new concepts are introduced. Students conduct lab exercises in lighting control techniques, color control techniques, lighting interiors, lighting exteriors, lighting for master shots and close-ups, and lighting for film and TV genres.
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  • CTME 250: Engineering and Troubleshooting

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Students learn basic video troubleshooting, basic technical terminology and concepts, operation of broadcast test equipment, and alignment and adjustment of video production equipment.
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  • CTME 255: Field Production

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course introduces the student to basic single-camera field production. Students learn planning and production strategies for single-camera field productions. Emphasis is placed on shooting to edit. Students are introduced to fundamentals of nonlinear editing. Lighting and audio techniques for field production are treated in depth.
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  • CTME 262: American Independent Cinema

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course analyzes the history, aesthetics, business, and production techniques of American independent cinema. Students will examine how independent filmmakers worked in opposition to the Hollywood studio system and how those mavericks generated a new cinema and culture inside and outside the studio system. Students will learn how financial and technological limitations spawned personal artistic voices and unconventional filmmaking techniques. The course examines the latest trends in technology, financing and distribution and how independent filmmakers find an audience.
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